Heart Failure: Hope for New Treatments

While new treatments are being developed to help those with advanced heart failure, cardiologist Richard Kitsis, M.D., feels the real hope for patients lies in understanding why hearts begins to fail in the first place and to develop pharmaceutical interventions. Dr. Kitsis is professor of medicine (cardiology) and cell biology, director of the Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute and the Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Chair in Cardiovascular Disease. (February 15, 2013)